COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONRobust in character yet smooth in delivery, Cabin Fever is a roasty brown ale and a hearty, comforting companion for long, mind-bending winters. Its rye, roast and raisin notes play off a subtle caramel sweetness and culminate in a dry finish. Excellent with roasts, stews, caramelized onions and snowfall.

Poured a deep dark brownish red with an off white small head that faded away pretty fast. No lacing to speak of.
Smells of sweet roasted malts. Chocolate and raisin. A bit of roast coffee.
Taste is very sweet and roasty. Very heavy for a brown ale. Has the brown sugar sweetness of a brown ale and the coffee and chocolate complexity you would normally get from a stout. Finish is slightly the bitterness of roasted coffee beans. There is something off and medicinal about the background. Not quite sure what it is. but it is masked well enough to not ruin this beer for me. A great winter brew!
Mouthfeel is a little flat and oily.
Drinkability is good, but not a session beer. Slightly heavy with the deep pallet.
All in all something worth trying. Iíll probably cellar a bottle of this to try again next year. Let ya know if that helps.
cheers!

Aroma is roasted malts, a bit of chocolate, some smoke, and a tinge of caramel. Appearance is a clear brownish/black with a medium sized tan head that diminishes into a soapy film. Taste is roast, malt, wierd metallic taste like the other said. I thought they were just bashing it, but yeah that metallic taste is there. Kind of a dry finishes with a little lingering spice undertones. Overall, It started out good but went down hill from there. Cheers!

Dark brown beer with some cola colored highlights. Thin beige head that shrank to a ring quickly. Nose is very nutty and buttery, with some brown sugar and burnt toast. I get a slippery buttery sensation as I drink this. Some dark buttered toast, toffee sweetness, and a funky off raspberry note that odds an odd tang to this.

Based on the review below my bottle must have been the way this beer was supposed to taste. This is the WORST brown I have had. Finished it is about all I can say....between this and a Diet Coke in the future I will take the diet.

although the optimist in me wants to like this beer, with its nutty, caramel, and treacle aroma and chocolatey appearance, the taste is way too sour for my palate, and Iíve had a few of them. All were the same.

This bottled brew from a rating party at JSquires poured a medium sized head of foamy fine to medium sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly diminishing and left behind a transparent uncarbonated red brown colored body. The mild aroma was brown malt and Irish Red malty. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The flavor contained notes of nutty and brown malt. An OK brew just nothing special.

Mahogany with a medium tan head quickly fading to a thin layer. Aroma of diacetyl, nuts and caramel. Taste of nuts, brown sugar, hazelnuts, brown sugar and some not so pleasant sourness. Nasty and off-putting, not a big fan of this one.

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